The 5 Best Claude Code Marketplace Alternatives in 2026

The Claude Code Marketplace is Anthropic's official directory of plugins for Claude Code, available as the claude-plugins-official repository. Anthropic describes plugins as bundles that can include skills, agents, hooks, MCP servers, and other capabilities, and the marketplace lets you discover and install those extensions without building them yourself. It's automatically available when you start Claude Code: you run /plugin, browse the Discover tab, and install with one command. Before plugins existed, teams shared scattered CLAUDE.md files, hook scripts, and MCP configs; the marketplace makes those pieces installable and shareable. Anthropic positions it as a curated directory of high-quality plugins, which trades breadth for consistency. If a plugin is missing, you can refresh the marketplace with /plugin marketplace update. Third-party marketplaces can be added alongside it.

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• + Zero setup: the official marketplace is automatically available when you start Claude Code
• + Anthropic-curated, so a baseline quality bar the community collections can't match
• + One-command install and refresh directly in the CLI
• + Plugin format is standardized, so skills, agents, hooks, and MCP servers all install the same way

• − Locked to Claude Code and Anthropic's ecosystem, so skills don't port to Codex, Cursor, or Gemini CLI
• − Smaller selection than community collections, which list hundreds to thousands of skills
• − No published per-skill security scans or benchmark results, which matters given research finding ~26% of skills carry at least one vulnerability
• − Requires a Claude Code subscription, and Claude Code has no free tier

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official

SkillzBench is AIQ Labs' free, independent directory of AI agent skills, plus a free MCP tool that connects any agent to the skills you choose. It's built around a problem the marketplace ecosystem has largely ignored: agent skills are everywhere, but nobody can tell which ones actually help and which are risky, and published research found roughly 26% of skills carry at least one vulnerability. SkillzBench continuously crawls and dedupes skills from GitHub, pins every version to a commit SHA, validates and license-checks each one, security-scans it, and judges its quality. It then benchmarks every skill in a sandbox with the same model, with and without the skill, and publishes the Lift in percentage points. A 0-100 trust score combines security, quality, license, maintenance, and community signals, and money never touches scores. Per-agent loadouts let you toggle skills and tools per agent so each agent only sees what was chosen. Everything on the platform, including the directory, MCP connector, benchmarks, and alerts, is free.

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• + Only option here that independently security-scans and benchmarks every skill, with Lift always shown separately from ratings
• + Works across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and chat-app agents, not just one ecosystem
• + Everything is free: directory, MCP connector, benchmarks, and alerts
• + Commit-SHA pinning means you know exactly which version was tested
• + Per-agent loadouts keep context windows lean by hiding tools the agent doesn't need

• − It's a directory and connector, not a plugin marketplace with one-command in-CLI installs, so setup differs from Claude Code's native flow
• − Independent benchmarks mean skills are re-tested on SkillzBench's schedule, so brand-new skills may not have Lift data yet
• − Advertising around blog articles funds the platform, which some readers may notice even though ad money never touches scores

https://skillzbench.com

Awesome Claude Plugins is a community-curated list of Claude Code plugins, described by its maintainers as a collection of slash commands, subagents, MCP servers, and hooks for Claude Code. It's one of the recognized third-party marketplaces you can add to Claude Code with /plugin marketplace add, which means it slots directly into the same install workflow as the official directory. The curation model is a classic awesome-list: humans pick what gets in, which keeps quality above the raw GitHub firehose, but there's no systematic security scanning or benchmarking of what's listed. It's also the collection Composio uses as the install path for its own Connect MCP plugin, which gives Claude Code access to apps like Jira, Linear, and GitHub from a single MCP server. For teams that want a broader selection than the official marketplace while staying inside Claude Code's native plugin system, it's the natural first stop.

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• + Works inside Claude Code's native marketplace system, so no new workflow to learn
• + Human curation filters out the worst of the raw GitHub listings
• + Broader selection than the official directory

• − No security scanning or benchmarking of listed plugins
• − Curation is manual, so listings can lag behind the newest plugins
• − Focused on Claude Code, with limited value for other agents

https://github.com/ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins

Claude Skills by alirezarezvani is one of the largest single-repo skill collections available, listing 345 Claude Code skills, agent skills, and plugins, including 30+ agents, 70+ custom commands, and 330+ skills with customizable references and scripts. What sets it apart from most Claude Code collections is breadth beyond engineering: the collection spans marketing, product, compliance, C-level advisory, research, business operations, commercial and finance, and general productivity skills. That makes it one of the few marketplaces genuinely useful to non-developers in a small business, not just coders. It's also explicitly cross-agent, built for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 8 more coding agents, so skills you adopt here can travel with you if you switch tools. The trade-off is that a big bundle from one author means uneven quality and no independent security scanning, which matters given research showing roughly a quarter of skills carry vulnerabilities.

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• + One of the largest single collections, with 345 skills across business and technical domains
• + Genuinely cross-agent: supports 12+ coding agents including Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI
• + Unusual breadth into marketing, finance, and compliance skills that most collections ignore

• − Large bundle from one author means quality varies between skills
• − No independent security scanning or benchmarking
• − Adopting a big repo means installing more than you need unless you cherry-pick carefully

https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Ecc, by affaan-m, is the most-starred collection in the major plugin directories, described as an agent harness performance optimization system. It packages skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor, and beyond. Unlike simple skill lists, Ecc takes a systems approach: it's trying to optimize how the whole agent harness performs, not just add individual commands. The inclusion of security components is notable, since most community collections don't address security at all, though Ecc's security hooks are self-provided rather than independently verified. Its cross-agent support is broad, covering the major coding agents most teams actually use. For developers who think of their agent setup as a tuned system rather than a pile of plugins, Ecc's harness-level approach is the most ambitious option among the community collections.

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• + Most-starred collection in the directories, suggesting strong community adoption
• + Treats the agent as a system to optimize, with memory and instincts, not just a plugin pile
• + Includes security hooks, which most community collections skip entirely
• + Broad cross-agent support including Codex, Opencode, and Cursor

• − A full harness system is heavier and more opinionated than picking individual skills
• − Security hooks are self-provided, not independently audited
• − Optimization-focused approach may be overkill if you just need a few specific skills

https://github.com/affaan-m/ecc

Superpowers Marketplace, by obra, is a curated Claude Code plugin marketplace. It takes the opposite approach from the volume-first collections: rather than listing thousands of skills, it curates a smaller set of commands, MCPs, and skills. The curation model means everything listed has been deliberately chosen, which reduces the sifting work and the risk of grabbing a low-quality or unmaintained plugin. It installs through the standard third-party marketplace flow, so Claude Code users add it with /plugin marketplace add and browse it alongside the official directory. The limitation is inherent to the model: a smaller catalog means you may not find niche skills here, and there's no published security scanning or benchmarking, so curation is the only quality filter. For teams that value signal over volume and want a second, hand-picked source to complement the official marketplace, it's a low-friction choice.

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• + Deliberate curation keeps the catalog tight and sift-free
• + Installs natively in Claude Code like any third-party marketplace
• + Covers commands, MCPs, and skills in one place

• − Smaller selection than the big community collections
• − No security scanning or benchmarking beyond human curation
• − Claude Code-focused, with little cross-agent value

https://github.com/obra/superpowers-marketplace

Claude Code Plugins Plus Skills, by jeremylongshore, is a volume-first collection: 425 plugins, 2,810 skills, and 200 agents for Claude Code, served through an open-source marketplace at tonsofskills.com with its own ccpi CLI package manager. Having a dedicated package manager is its most distinctive feature, since most collections rely on Claude Code's native marketplace commands or raw git clones. The sheer size means you're likely to find something for almost any task, and the numbers make it one of the largest single collections in the ecosystem. The flip side of volume is trust: with thousands of skills and no stated security scanning or benchmarking, the burden of evaluating what you install falls entirely on you. That matters given published research finding roughly 26% of skills carry at least one vulnerability. It's a good hunting ground if you know what you're looking for and can evaluate it yourself.

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• + One of the largest collections available, with 2,810 skills and 425 plugins
• + Dedicated ccpi CLI package manager, unique among the collections
• + Likely to have something for nearly any task

• − Volume-first model with no stated security scanning or benchmarking
• − Quality varies widely across thousands of listings
• − Claude Code-focused, with limited cross-agent support

https://tonsofskills.com